{"id":463465,"date":"2018-02-11T19:20:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T19:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/11\/one-village-one-dam-starts-this-year-akufo-addo\/"},"modified":"2018-02-11T19:20:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T19:20:23","slug":"one-village-one-dam-starts-this-year-akufo-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/11\/one-village-one-dam-starts-this-year-akufo-addo\/","title":{"rendered":"One village, one dam starts this year &#8211; Akufo-Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Business News of Sunday, 11 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>dailyguideafrica.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-11<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/26468483.295.jpg\" alt=\"President Akufo Addo London\" title=\"President Akufo Addo London\" width=\"295\" height=\"183\" \/><span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1518376823_475_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Government has announced that one of its flagship projects, the \u2018One-Village, One-Dam,\u2019 will fully start this year.<\/p>\n<p>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, who made this known in Parliament while delivering the State of the Nation Address, said though the project is a simple, low-tech project, the dams would \u201cmake a big difference to all our lives and the livelihoods of our farmers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlready, many of the little dams that had been abandoned have been rehabilitated and brought back into use. A deliberate and specific intervention to help farmers is paying off. Our farmers can see that the government is putting resources to back up the usual words. The 50 percent subsidy on fertilizer and the increase in the provision of extension services are making a great difference to the performance of Ghanaian agriculture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Planting for Food and Jobs<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Under this scheme, he said Ghanaians were witnessing a fresh interest in farming, disclosing that the success of the first-year had encouraged government to increase the scope of the programme.<\/p>\n<p>He added that this year, some half a million farmers would be signed on up from the figure of 200,000.<\/p>\n<p><b>Fisheries<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Touching on fisheries, he said his administration had identified 100 dams in five regions across the country \u2013 Upper East, Upper West, Northern, Volta and Western \u2013 and stocked them with fingerlings.<\/p>\n<p>This is the start of big things to come.<\/p>\n<p><b>Tourism<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are building a Ghana, where tourists will feel at home, and we shall feel proud when they say \u201cI was in Ghana.\u201d On December 15, 2017, I joined the chiefs and people of Osu and Gbese to cut the sod for the 241-acre Accra Marine Drive Project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis project, during construction and upon completion, will generate thousands of jobs for the local community and across the value chain, and position Ghana as a key tourism destination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Economic formalization<\/b><\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo said that the start of the digital address system, introduction of paperless transactions at the country\u2019s ports, the rapid and continuing spread of broadband services are all helping to formalise and modernise Ghana\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSubsequent to Cabinet approval, the framework agreement between Ghana and the Republic of Mauritius for an initial investment in the development of a technology park in Dawa, in the Greater Accra Region has been ratified by Parliament for implementation to begin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately and predictably, a whole new set of dangers of cyber insecurity and fraud have emerged with these modern tools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said his administration was working to strengthen cyber security to build confidence and protect the use of electronic communications in national development, and ensure that Ghana\u2019s young technologically savvy people would keep the country firmly in the exciting IT economy and its many opportunities.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fEliycSix9M\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/YM9oqKrx-GtVgZhNx.html\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 3 updated by: 3 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business News of Sunday, 11 February 2018 Source: dailyguideafrica.com 2018-02-11 play videoPresident Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Government has announced that one of its flagship projects, the \u2018One-Village, One-Dam,\u2019 will fully start this year. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, who made this known in Parliament while delivering the State of the Nation Address, said though the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":463466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}